Member Login

E-mail:    Password:  




 TitleDate AddedCompany
whitepaper AT&T Inc. Upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to Centralize Accounting Processes2009-10-01 Oracle
  AT&T Inc. wanted to upgrade the company's existing Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to accommodate recent communications industry acquisitions and more easily incorporate international operating companies. The challenge was to support centralization of business operations to achieve greater consistency, data reliability, and global visibility. AT&T Inc. worked with Oracle Consulting to upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to accommodate the company's recent acquisitions as well as its international companies, operating in 85 countries with more than 70 currencies and enabled users to perform multiple tasks - including entering and paying invoices - across operating units.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Panostaja Oyj Provides a Competitive Edge for Subsidiaries With Effective Reporting System2009-09-01 Oracle
  Panostaja Oyj wanted to obtain a scalable and reliable financial reporting system to meet the needs of the quickly growing business, which had doubled in annual revenue and number of business areas due to mergers and acquisitions and reduce the amount of manual work both in external and internal reporting, and manage staff risk by reducing dependency on the presence of certain key employees. The challenge was to build a system where the subsidiaries produce their own monthly reports, and give management enough time to analyze key figures and take prompt action regarding problem areas. Panostaja Oyj worked with Oracle Partner Hy Partner Solutions Oy to implement Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management, benefiting from its inherent scalability and powerful Web analysis features.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper Hyro Asia Improves Its Profile, Gets Closer to Top Accounts With Integrated CRM System2009-09-01 Oracle
  A wholly-owned subsidiary of Australian Securities Exchange-listed Hyro Limited, Hyro Asia develops and implements digital services for use across multiple channels including online, mobile, and interactive television. Hyro Asia deployed a packaged CRM solution to better dissect its revenue stream and identify customers that were unprofitable. Hyro Asia moved away from the platform and persevered with its own in-house-developed CRM system before deploying Oracle CRM On Demand over a period of two weeks in midyear 2009.

Tags: Financial Services		   
whitepaper Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting2009-09-01 Oracle
  Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team has time to review consolidated regional results before submission to the U.S. head office. The challenge was to extend and improve management reporting across all areas of the business at individual and consolidated group level. Cliffs Natural Resources engaged Oracle Certified Partner M-Power Solutions to implement Oracle's Hyperion solutions to aid the company in defining requirements; designing, building, testing, and deploying the solution; and deployment project management and Contributed to a shortening of the month-end cycle from seven days to four days, by using Hyperion, not spreadsheets, to derive monthly management and statutory results.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper Securing Online Banking on an Unprecedented Scale2009-09-01 RSA Security
  This large commercial bank in Asia serves over 12 million customers. The challenge was to offer compelling eBanking services with reliable security measures to protect transactions and reassure customers and to integrate new solution smoothly with bank's existing platform to minimize downtime and service disruption. Bank deployed RSA SecurID hardware tokens distributed to eBanking customers with training in their use and benefits and RSA Authentication Manager deployed in just six weeks to manage access rights.

Tags: Security Administration, Financial Services		   
whitepaper C&S Migrates to a Common Scalable Platform, Driving Efficiency and Reliability While Improving Controls2009-09-01 Oracle
  C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene wanted to control user access to critical data and monitor financial processes without manual intervention and maintain data continuity across multiple systems. The challenge was to eliminate requisite manual coding in maintaining critical mainframe systems and increase employee productivity across the organization to execute operations more efficiently. C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene reviewed the objectives and strategies of the finance; payroll; trade management; and, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes and assessed process challenges and identified and prioritized capabilities required to address the challenges.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper SBI Sumishin Net Bank: A Full-Banking Service, Internet-Only Bank2009-08-31 IBM
  Headquartered in Tokyo, SBI Sumishin Net Bank is an "Internet-only" bank established as a joint venture between SBI Holdings and Sumitomo Trust & Banking. In Japan, competition in the Internet banking business has been intensifying. In this environment, SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Ltd. aimed to bring to market a broad product lineup in a shorter period than other financial institutions. Development of a totally new Internet banking platform was characterized by the use of an accounting system application package and a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework.

Tags: Financial Services, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%2009-08-01 Oracle
  Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. The challenge was to speed up slow, computer-intensive operations, such as the monthly payroll run, and enable parallel running of processes and improve the daily backup, which prevented processing or accessing online applications after 10 p.m. Greven City Council worked with Oracle Consulting to minimize the hardware the city council needed by implementing Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters and achieved a marked improvement in performance across all departments as a result of facilitating the running of parallel processes, including accounting processes.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper Pearson Gains Real-Time Enterprise Performance Insight With Standardized Reporting and Planning2009-08-01 Oracle
  Pearson wanted to cut monthly close times by standardizing and consolidating financial reporting for three major global businesses and reduce software licensing and management costs. The challenge was to build transparent, consistent, agile financial management and planning infrastructure to gain real-time enterprise performance visibility and increase competitive advantage and ensure compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) requirements. Pearson upgraded from multiple instances and versions of Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise to a single global instance of Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management and rolled out Hyperion Financial Management to 300 reporting units in 60 global locations using 80 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environments.

Tags: Financial Services, Business Functions		   
whitepaper Electricity Authority of Cyprus Reduces Customer Query Response Times From Two Hours to Minutes2009-08-01 Oracle
  The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) wanted to establish a new system to resolve customer queries more efficiently and improve the speed and accuracy of customer billing. The challenge was to reduce the time and employee resources required to complete customer billing processes and reduce the number of visits to new customer sites when establishing new accounts. EAC worked with Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing - automating customer care and billing processes to ensure that EAC is prepared for potential competition in the country's recently liberalized utilities market and accelerated bill delivery and improved the accuracy of billing information.

Tags: Financial Services